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Subject: RE: TeX
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 10:25:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 10:25:13 1987
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In article <8709200749.AA16180@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> WARNOCK@PRISM.CLEMSON.EDU
(Todd Warnock) writes:
    I'm a bit confused.  I understand that TeX is a form of document processing
    (I've actually got a document that's in TeX)  What I don't know is - what
    de-TeXs it ?  What can you print it on ?  Public domain stuff or what ?
     
If you have laser printers from Talaris Systems or QMS, you can buy a
complete TeX system (TeX, LaTeX, fonts and a print symbiont) from Talaris
for about $800 (pretty cheap for roughly 50 MB of stuff :-).

We have Talaris laser printers here and use TeX a bit and like it a lot.
TeX implementations are also available for the Macintosh (TeXtures) and
MS-DOS systems (MicroTeX) from Addison-Wesley.  Addison-Wesley also
publishes Knuth's "The TeXBook" which is the complete TeX documentation
and Leslie Lamport's "LaTeX, A Document Preparation System".  LaTeX is
a (very large) set of TeX macros and document styles which make TeX
considerably easier to use, especially for non-computer professionals.
At least one national laboratory (Los Alamos) uses TeX/LaTeX for its
documentation and has had great success with the secretaries picking
up on things.


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